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Robert Andrews Smith

Robert A. Smith
Full Name: Robert Andrews Smith
Birth date: January 4, 1841
Death date: March 7, 1906

Terms of Service

  • House, 24th (1) Legislature
    1/8/1895 - 1/12/1897
    Democrat
(1) "R.A. Smith, a stock man of Ballinger, was nominated here [San Angelo] this morning by acclamation for representative in the Ninety-fifth district." "A Dead-lock Broken," 8/9/1894, p. 1. Fort Worth Daily Gazette .

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  • Confederate States Army, Private, (2nd) Company C, 13th Regiment Texas Infantry, enlisted 11/4/1861 at Velasco, Texas, age 21; transferred to Company H, 23rd Regiment Texas Cavalry (Gould's Regiment), 9/2/1863; again transferred to Company A, 36th Regiment Texas Cavalry (Woods' Regiment, 32nd Regiment Texas Cavalry), 11/12/1863 (War Department memo, 4/13/1932). Robert Andrews Smith, death date 3/7/1906 in Runnels County, Texas; widow Mrs. R.A. Smith, marriage date 4/3/1872 in Travis County, Texas, postoffice address C/O Miss Lillie Robertson, Robertson Hill, Austin, Texas. Pension File No. 50709, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
  • Obituary of wife Sarah Robertson Smith, "Mrs. R.A. Smith Taken by Death," 5/22/1940, p. 13, last surviving member of the Texas pioneer Robertson family, which owned the French embassy in Austin. "In 1870, Sarah Robertson married Robert A. Smith, nephew of Gov. Morgan Hamilton of Texas and a young attorney of Austin. Mrs. and Mrs. Smith later moved to Runnels county where Mr. Smith had ranch interests and practiced law in Ballinger." Austin American .
  • Obituary, R.A. Smith, 3/8/1906, p. 2. "Mr. Smith was formerly a well known citizen of Austin, but has not resided here permanently for about twenty years . . . Mr. Smith was about 65 years of age and a prominent stockman of Ballinger. He is a nephew of Governor Jack Hamilton." Sister Miss Mary Mitchell of Austin. Austin American .
  • R.A. Smith, marriage to Sarah A. Robertson 4/3/1872 in Austin Travis County.
    Census of 1880 - Robert A. Smith, Austin, Travis County, age 36, born circa 1844 in Alabama, lawyer, wife Sarah A. Smith, mother J.H. Smith, sister Mary Mitchell.
    Census of 1900 - Robert A. Smith, Ballinger, Runnels County, age 59, born January 1841 in Alabama, farmer, wife Sarah. FamilySearch . 1900 1880
    • Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965
  • Robert A. Smith, birth date 1/4/1841, death date 3/7/1906, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County. Find a Grave .
  • Obituary, "Captain Smith Dead: Prominent Citizen of Ballinger Called to His Reward," 3/8/1906, p. 4. Captain R.A. Smith, president of Ballinger State Bank & Trust company. Fort Worth Record and Register .
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